“Thumbelina” by Hans Christian Andersen illustrated by N. Knyazkova (1986)
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This blog is about old postcards, book illustration and all kinds of paper whimsy from the Soviet Union. I'm a long time collector, and this blog is 7 years old. I have an etsy shop for cards, books, pins and vintage finds from Russia.
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“Babies of the Zoo” by Samuil Marshak, Soviet book in English. Illustrated by Yevgeny Charushin (1987)
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Finest the Brave Falcon, Russian fairy tale illustrated by Ivan Bilibin. Published in 1985, this edition is in Czech.
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Soviet doll house kitchen (c. early 1980s)
Barbecuing in the woods (шашлыки!)
Cover of Pavel Bazhov books published during the Soviet Union
My recent finds. Teenagers’ books from the seventies and eighties.
Book illustration by Nikolai Ustinov (USSR, 1960s)
Russian fairy tales. “Sister Alyonushka and Brother Ivanushka”, “The White Duck”, illustrated by Ivan Bilibin, published in 1903 ()
This book was reprinted in 1986, it’s .
Phone booth at a factory. Image found in Rabotnitsa magazine from October 1969